I emailed the Dr., linking to this thread and asking him to confirm or deny the rumor. As of yet, I have not gotten a response.
As has already been said earlier in this thread, he has already confirmed it is a rumor.
It seems as if your confirmation has already been pretty much refuted. I tend to believe that he was ordained.
He denied it directly to me. That puts the matter to rest. What more do you want than that!
Perhaps if you had said that directly rather than just hint at it in your first post, there would be no further question.
Why did he deny it directly to you but tell another person that he's been asked not to say. All I know is that something if fishy and, frankly, I don't know who to believe and, ever since I read Droleskey's outright falsehoods in the Bishop Petko affair, I'm not sure I would believe him if he told me it was raining during a thunderstorm.